Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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